This is the Release 1.20.12 of the Mediamatics MPEG Arcade(TM) Player. This is a OM-1 compatible MCI driver enabling Software only Decode of MPEG-1 streams.
The playback of VideoCD, CD-i and CD-Karaoke disks is availabe by using the "Mediamatics VideoCD Arcade Player" Device entry.
This player reads MPEG-1 System, Video and Audio Streams of up to 1.5Mbits/sec from Hard Disk or ISO/High Sierra CD Roms and plays back on a DCI enabled graphics subsystem.
Hardware Requirements: ---------------------
(1) Any 8/16 bit Wave Card with Windows Drivers. The factory default is 16-bit PCM Wave data. For 8-bit Cards - please configure the driver using Control Panel/Drivers/Mediamatics Setup.
(2) For best results, a Pentium 75/90Mhz Processor based System with 256K second level cache is recommended.
(3) For playback of CD's - any CD-ROM drive with < 10% CPU utilization while reading 170Kb/sec (see NewMedia Magazine article 1/6/95 - pp 22). capable of CD-i or VideoCD playback. NOTE: Most CD-ROM drives and firmware which support CD-i and Video-CD playback are high-end CD-ROM drives. Typically these drives are not found in the Multimedia Kits.